Build faster and cheaper
Planning, permitting, housing, construction, transport, logistics and infrastructure delivery.
Companies reducing the time, cost and uncertainty involved in building in Britain.
Moving Atoms
Britain should build ambitious things again.
Moving Atoms is an investment network backing engineers, makers and obsessive problem-solvers building a more productive Britain. We invest in companies removing the bottlenecks that stop the country building, producing and competing at the level it should.
The Problem
Britain has extraordinary potential. Too much gets stuck.
Britain has world-class talent, science, capital markets and engineering capability. But too often, we struggle to turn those advantages into real-world capacity.
We build homes too slowly. Infrastructure costs too much. Industrial capability has thinned out. Public systems are overloaded. Promising companies leave or stall. Ambitious builders often lack the right capital, community and confidence around them.
The result is a country operating below its potential, with too much drag. Moving Atoms exists to help change that.
Our Thesis
Britain's next wave of growth will come from removing the bottlenecks to national productivity.
We back technologies and founders that make it easier for Britain to build homes and infrastructure, manufacture advanced goods, move energy and materials, secure critical systems, restore natural infrastructure and operate more effectively.
We are especially interested in companies where software, automation or deep technical insight unlocks difficult real-world problems.
How we think
Most investors see sectors. We see critical paths.
If Britain wants an advanced manufacturing future, what needs to be true?
It needs cheaper energy, faster grid connections, better planning, robotics, industrial software, skilled people, resilient supply chains, ambitious customers and capital that understands difficult things take time.
These systems depend on one another. Looking across them helps us identify the bottlenecks, technologies and companies that can unlock progress elsewhere.
We are not inventing new sectors. We are connecting existing ones around a single question:
What makes Britain more productive?
Britain is our mission, not our border. We will back exceptional companies and technologies wherever they can strengthen the country's productive capacity.
What we back
Six critical paths to a more productive Britain.
Power growth
Generation, grids, flexibility, storage, nuclear, electrification, energy optimisation and industrial energy.
Companies enabling abundant, reliable and affordable power.
Make more
Advanced manufacturing, robotics, automation, materials, factory software, resilient supply chains, food and agriculture.
Companies expanding Britain's ability to produce complex and essential things.
Secure critical systems
Defence, dual-use technology, cyber, compute, AI infrastructure, space and secure communications.
Companies strengthening the capabilities Britain cannot afford to lose control of.
Restore natural infrastructure
Water, flood resilience, biodiversity, land systems, nature markets and climate adaptation.
Companies rebuilding the natural systems on which long-term prosperity depends.
Govern faster
Public-sector productivity, procurement tools, regulatory systems, NHS operations and civic technology.
Companies helping institutions act with greater speed, clarity and competence.
The builders
Back the people doing difficult things.
We care about makers, tinkerers, engineers and obsessive problem-solvers doing technically complicated work in workshops, labs, factories and sheds.
They are turning invention into useful products, productive industry, critical infrastructure and national capability.
They should be easier to find, easier to fund and harder to ignore.
The network
Start with the deal. Build the network.
Moving Atoms brings together investors, operators, customers and experts around a small number of deal-by-deal investments.
We find the opportunities, develop the investment case and let members choose which companies they want to back.
Final invitation
Help build Britain's future.
If you are building something difficult, we want to hear from you. If you want to back the people doing it, join us.
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